My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0537

Could it be that he was struggling just as much as I was all along but he was just too afraid to show it?

I clenched my hands, my nails digging into the flesh of my palms. Why hadn't I seen it before? Why had I assumed that I was the only one affected, the only one who needed support?

As I stared at the rippling water, the realization hit me with crushing weight: what if Enzo was going through his own hell and I wasn't there to help him through it? He was so worried about what would happen to me while he was away, but what if something happened to him while he was away? What if, like me, he too shouldn't be alone?

"Should I go with him?" I muttered aloud, calling to my wolf again. "What if we've been overlooking the simplest option all along?"

"I wouldn't call it the simplest," my wolf said. "You would have to put medical school on hold. That's not simple."

"But he needs me," I shot back, sighing heavily. "He needs me, maybe more than he even realizes, and I've been totally blind to it."

felt so overwhelmed, the weight of my ignorance pressing

you, but you also need him," my wolf said softly, breaking her

quivering. "I just

underfoot alerted me to his approach before I even saw him. My wolf perked up instantly, conflicted emotions swirling within me. I knew it was Enzo, but a part

on me. "Nina," he breathed out, the

folding my arms instinctively over my chest. "I'm

"Look, I know I shouldn't have acted the way I did, Nina. I'm

the stream once again. "I'm fine. But 'sorry' isn't really gonna cut

lost control and I shouldn't have. That's

raw emotion in his voice tempted me to look at him, to fall into those eyes that had always been my sanctuary. But I resisted. "Lost control? Is that what we're calling it

spoke, Enzo's eyes widened

about how violence won't solve anything. About how that isn't our way.